Meaning
晩年 (ばんねん, bannen) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “one's later years”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
彼は晩年を故郷で過ごしたんだ。
He spent his later years in his hometown.
晩年は出家した。
He became a priest in his later years.
ブラウン氏は晩年に入っている。
Mr Brown is in the sunset of his life.
彼女は悲しみを隠して晩年を送った。
She spent her later life with a hidden sorrow.
彼は晩年を自伝を書くことに献げた。
He devoted the last years of his life to writing his autobiography.
ベートーベンは晩年耳が聞こえなかった。
Beethoven was deaf in his late years.
晩年になってそのけちは気前がよくなった。
Late in life the miser learned to be generous with money.
彼はピカソが晩年に描いた絵を手に入れた。
He obtained a picture which Picasso had painted in his later years.
晩年は胃潰瘍に悩まされ、「明暗」が絶筆となった。
In his later years, he suffered from gastric ulcer, and 'Meian' was his last work.
晩年は「日刊スポーツ」に劇画「ナンセンス三浪士」を連載した。
In his final years, he had the story called 'Nonsense Miroshi' (Three Nonsensical Ronin) serialized as a comic strip in Nikkan Sports (a daily newspaper).
この金時計は私にとって非常に大切なものだ。母が晩年に形見として私にくれたものだから。
This gold watch is the apple of my eye. Mother gave it to me as a keep-sake in her later years.
渋沢は慶喜の晩年、慶喜の伝記編纂を目指し、渋る慶喜を説得し直話を聞く「昔夢会」を開いた。
In Yoshinobu's last years, SHIBUSAWA aimed to edit Yoshinobu's biography; he persuaded unwilling Yoshinobu and started "Sekimukai" meetings to hear stories directly from Yoshinobu.